In our week 3 discussion we will focus on the Day Care Center Abuse Scandal. Here’s what to do: 1. Read or listen to the assigned materials. Use the reading notes to know what to pay attention to. 2. Read the prompt closely.

The Day Care Center Abuse Scandal.

Week 3 Discussion: The Day Care Center Abuse Scandal. How to write and respond to a Discussion Post Here’s what to do: 1. Read or listen to the assigned materials. Use the reading notes to know what to pay attention to. 2. Read the prompt closely. Usually, it will ask you to draw on but extend what you learned from the reading and lectures. 3. Before you post, take a look at the posts that are already there. 4. Your post should be about two paragraphs long. Try to be concise while also answering the prompt. Remember to draw on the readings.

The Day Care Center Abuse Scandal.

You do not have to quote anything but try to understand the authors’ main arguments and then relate them to the prompt. In addition, unless you are the first person to post to your group, you should either a)identify a theme in the discussion; b)answer a question that a TA or another group member has asked; or c) ask a question of your own. You can do all three if you’d like! The goal is to encourage discussion. 5. Respond to other people’s posts. Be friendly and curious and willing to disagree. Remember that none of us has the full answer

The Day Care Center Abuse Scandal.

6. RUBRIC: You can receive a total of 3 points each week: 2 points for your initial post and 1 point for your response(s). A 2-point post responds to the prompt in a way that shows you have engaged the assigned materials (a 1-point post responds to the prompt but does not clearly show you have engaged the assigned materials). Your response should do more than thank another poster; it should engage the discussion. Your fellow group members and TA’s will thank you for writing as clearly, accessibly, and briefly as possible.

The Day Care Center Abuse Scandal.

Week 3 Discussion: The Day Care Center Abuse Scandal Please post a discussion post to your group in response to the following by Thursday, October 13 at 11:59 pm. Please post a response by Friday, October 14 at 11:59 pm. The article by Dorothy Rabinowitz describes one in a seeming flood of cases of child sexual abuse in day care centers in the 1980s. Eventually, 11,000 cases were reported to police and social workers.

The Day Care Center Abuse Scandal.

In your post this week, I’d like you to try to apply Kai Erikson’s analysis of the Puritan witchcraft “crime wave” to the “crime wave” of day care center child abuse centuries later. Erikson draws on Durkheim to explain why people became so convinced that there were witches in their midst.  Can you make a similar argument to explain so many people, including, parents, journalists, and even psychologists, believed so strongly that children were being abused in bizarre Satanic rituals? Why was is it at that time–in the 1980s– that people became so convinced that children in day care were in terrible danger? And do you find a Durkheimian explanation convincing? https://youtu.be/kmrzBqYiSYE

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